This year’s Olof Palme Prize has been awarded to Iranian women’s rights campaigner Parvin Ardalan.
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A U.S.-based human rights group has criticized Iran for imposing lengthy jail sentences on six women activists. In a statement Thursday, Human Rights Watch is appealing to the head of Iran's judiciary, Ayatollah Mahmud Hashemi Shahrudi to immediately overturn the convictions and in the group's words, "end the persecution of all such human rights defenders."
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Two prominent Iranian women's rights activists who were arrested at a peaceful protest on March 4 have been ordered detained for a month.
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The United States says it is "deeply" concerned by reports that Iranian authorities attacked peaceful women's rights protesters at a gathering to mark International Women's Day, Radio Farda reported.
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All but three of a group of women arrested during a peaceful protest in Tehran on March 4 have been released.
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The United Nations' high commissioner for human rights has expressed concern about the jailing in Iran of more than 30 women activists.
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The French media-rights group Reporters Without Borders (RSF) has condemned the arrest of three women's rights activists and journalists in Iran.
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